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The Barefoot Paradigm, Why it is high time for Team Barefoot! by Yvonne Welz (THH Issue 42)
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The Equine Frog Series:
Health and Disease of the Equine Frog, Part One: What Does a Healthy Frog Look Like and Why Does it Matter? by Candace Platz DVM and Heike Bean (THH Issue 38)
Health and Disease of the Equine Frog, Part 2: What Exactly is Frog Disease and What does it look like? by Candace Platz DVM and Heike Bean (THH Issue 39)
Treatment of Disease in the Equine Frog, Part 3 of Health and Disease of the Equine Frog by Candace Platz DVM and Heike Bean (THH Issue 40)
Frog Disease Help: Useful Tools, Close Inspection of the Frog, Successful Treatment by Candace Platz DVM and Heike Bean (THH Issue 40 Online Extras)
Equine Frog Treatment Studies by Candace Platz DVM, Heike Bean and Josephine Trott, PhD (THH Issue 41)
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Welcome to The Horse's Hoof, News for Barefoot Hoofcare
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"The Horse's Hoof" is this informational website, as well as a quarterly printed 24 page magazine, published since 2000 (available in our online store). The Horses Hoof, both magazine and website, is a generic barefoot resource for both horseowners and professionals, created in 2000 by barefoot advocates James & Yvonne Welz. The Horse's Hoof is for everyone! We welcome and encourage all methods and theories of barefoot trimming, and support all forms of hoof care that focus on creating healthier hooves over the long-term. We advocate finding compromises to create more natural, healthier living conditions for all horses. We believe that a good system of barefoot horse care is the ultimate prevention against most serious hoof ailments that affect our domestic horses.
While barefoot can be used successfully for the rehabilitation of unhealthy feet, our main focus is on preventing unhealthy feet in the first place - through education and awareness. It is our goal that barefoot becomes a widely accepted choice for performance horses around the world, with hooves raised carefully from birth to be superior in every way. It can be done - we have that information available now, and many people are putting that to action (see the Barefoot Performance page). Using this knowledge, no horse should ever need to suffer catastrophic founder. The younger you begin a barefoot program with your horse, the better (ideally, at birth), but most horse's hooves can be significantly improved, and even become healthy enough to do whatever activity you desire. Barefoot is NOT a fad, or anything new - after all, horses were born with bare hooves. Learning to keep them that way successfully is the job of the barefoot horse owner, and we're here to help. Healthy hooves create happy horses!
The Horses Hoof includes a wide variety of information and links throughout this website, and in our magazine. The magazine contents are mostly different from the website, though we do include some articles on here from past issues (Click here for the Contents List). You will find articles and information from and about all the leading experts in the field, including Jaime Jackson, Dr. Robert Bower, Dr. Hiltrud Strasser, Pete Ramey, KC La Pierre, and many others, as well as experiences and stories from various practitioners and owners. We include a wide variety of material, some of it contradictory, as there are many differences of opinion - and we don't personally agree with everything we publish. We encourage and promote this interchange, because we feel this is what will kick barefoot hoofcare up to the next level!
If you would like to read the personal opinions of James & Yvonne Welz, please visit our new "membership hoofcare educational website," Hoof Help Online (www.HoofHelpOnline.com), which provides detailed how-to trimming instructions and advice through a wide variety of media, and presents our ideas and philosophies on hoofcare that we have personally developed over the past decade.
Barefoot hoofcare is a young, developing art and science. There is so much ahead to discover. After nearly 20 years of hoof study, the leading hoof researcher in the U.S., Dr. Robert Bowker, says, "There is so much that we still don't know about the hoof!"
(for archive of all previous news items, please visit our News page)
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What BETTER way to keep you abreast of barefoot news? I'll try to keep you posted with a steady stream of news and happenings in the barefoot world, as well as special interest stories about the things that matter to those who love natural horse care. And I'll tell you what is going on with James & I. (This current "old fashioned" news section will filter down to just the more important "stand-out" news items.)
Australian Brumby Research Unit
This site is dedicated to the PhD process and ongoing research undertaken by Dr. Brian Hampson and Professor Chris Pollitt.
The ABRU was established with the aim of investigating the feral horses of Australia and applying the findings to improve foot health of the domestic horse. You can purchase a full copy of Dr. Brian Hampson's PhD thesis, "The Effects of Environment on the Feral Horse Foot" for $50 AUD.
http://www.wildhorseresearch.com/
A little off topic from hooves, but well worth supporting:
The Classical Riding Club
A Worldwide Organisation - based in Scotland, Founded by Sylvia Loch in 1995 and still growing!
Join for a yearly fee of only about $28 USD and receive online access to a huge library of classical training information! Help support GOOD dressage riding! Network with like-minded horseowners and trainers. This positive group is making a big difference.
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Announcing the winner of our Barefooters’ Favorite Cover Horse Contest! (drumroll)... http://thehorseshoof.com/44covercontest.pdf
Winning by a hair - really! - is Mike Hare and Boogie! 1st runner up is Jill Owens and Pokani. 2nd runner up is Jen Clingly and Imaj Zamir. Honorable mentions to Candace Clark and WC Angels Deelyte; Deborah Philip and Rose; and Tracey Hallman & Skip. Look for Mike & Boogie on the cover of THH Winter Issue 45. Congrats to all, you are all winners of barefoot!
Pete Ramey releases new Hoof Textbook, “Care and Rehabilitation of the Equine Foot”
A New 464 Page Hardback, in Full-Color with 630 Pictures and Drawings, by Pete Ramey
Have you ever wished you had a top equine veterinarian, an equine nutritionist, a veterinary chiropractor, a pasture/grass specialist, an internal pathology expert, a hoof researcher, an equine dentistry specialist, a biomechanics expert and a hoof rehabilitation specialist all putting their heads together to help your horse? Now you do, in this remarkable book from Pete Ramey, including chapters by Robert M. Bowker, VMD, PhD, Hilary M. Clayton, BVMS, PhD, Dipl ACVSMR, MRCVS, Brian Hampson, PhD, Eleanor Kellon, VMD, Kerry Ridgway, DVM, Debra R. Taylor, DVM, MS, DACVIM and Kathryn Watts, BS. Read the book outline here. Click here for order info. $176.
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Hoof Help Online officially launches October 1, 2011!
Direct from James & Yvonne Welz, a brand new way to learn about hooves. Welcome to the premiere of our hoof education membership website. Wide variety of all-new exclusive educational materials about the hoof, with detailed how-to-trim information, from beginner to advanced. Learn an entirely new system of barefoot trimming.
Visit Hoof Help Online at http://hoofhelponline.com
2012 International Hoof-Care Summit Features Dr. Robert Bowker
The 2012 Int’l Hoof-Care Summit takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 31 to February 3, 2012, and will feature 65 hours of in-depth hoof-care learning, with Dr. Robert Bowker as a featured speaker. Other speakers include Gene Ovnicek, Dr. Stephen O’Grady, Mitch Taylor, and Dr. Hans Castelijns. The Summit includes general sessions, hoof-care classrooms, hoof-care roundtables, and a trade show.
For more information, visit: www.ihcs2012.com
Each issue of The Horse's Hoof Magazine is released with the seasons:
Winter issue: Jan 1
Spring issue: Apr 1
Summer issue: July 1
Fall issue: Oct 1
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May 21-23, 2011 - Welz Hoof Health Clinic in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada was a huge success! Big thanks to the RoadTrimmers Barefoot Hoofcare!
A "Natural" Approach to Navicular Disease by Susan Kauffmann
This article was first published in EQUUS magazine.
Susan Kauffmann, an equestrian journalist with a particular interest in barefoot hoof care, has a blog: http://theequinist.blogspot.com/
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